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Some men see things as they are and ask why; I dream of things that never were and say why not? - Bernard Shaw

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Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertaking - Samuel Johnson

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This world is but a thoroughfare... And we (are) but pilgrims passing to and fro - Chaucer

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If you seek a tranquil mind, observe these with care: Of whom you speak, to whom you speak, and how, when and where - Anonymous

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Self-Improvement-60: "The Law of Success" by Napoleon Hill

Grateful thanks to Loomis1324 and YouTube.

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Praise undeserved is scandal in disguise - Alexander Pope

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As long as there is a body, there must be pleasure and pain - Swami Vivekananda

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Revenge is the poor delight of little minds - Juvenal

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Facts and Figures-61: "Antarctica losing 190,000,000,000 tons of ice per year!"

A news item in Harper's Weekly (Harper's Weekly Review, November 24, 2009) says that Antartica was now losing, hold your breath, 190,000,000,000 tons of ice per year! I am curious how scientists arrive at these mind-boggling figures.

Grateful thanks to Paul Ford and Harper's Weekly.

Eyecatchers-143: "Global Warming Science is a Fraud?"

A collection of emails from leading climatologists was stolen by hackers and released online; climate-change skeptics said the emails demonstrated that global-warming science is a fraud, while the scientists said that that's just what science looks like.

Courtesy: Weekly Review by Paul Ford, HARPER'S WEEKLY, November 24, 2009.

Grateful thanks to Paul Ford and Harper's Weekly.

A Thought for Today-273:

Words, like Nature, half reveal
And half conceal the Soul within - Tennyson

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